RoboRay @ RoboRay @kbin.social

*If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or act

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TL;DR: Windows works if you don‘t ask to be private, performant or secure.

Don't forget to add "punctual"... for when you need to do something right now but you can't because Microsoft decided to have your computer do something else instead.

I’m helping a family member build a pc. He wanted to use Windows

Building a PC technically doesn't include OS installation.

Build it, boot your OS of choice from a live USB to verify the hardware all works, then walk away.

I told my friends and family years ago that I will be happy to set them up with a working Linux installation and will support them as needed... but if they want to use Windows they are on their own.

You told it to update then you're upset that it is updating...

Thinkpad X1 Carbons are absolutely flawless in Linux... I've used Gen 5s and now have a Gen 9.

I have a 20 year old B&W Brother laser and a 2 year old color Brother laser... both just work automatically in Linux without needing any setup, configuration, or drivers.

Only a bit tongue-in-cheek... :)

Sometimes typing something is better, sometimes just clicking a button is better. It just depends on... too many things to list.

Sure, which makes it curious that the previous comment implied that it's a new thing since 2000 when it's actually a very old thing.

There's also LMDE as an option.

you can just type what program you want. It’s not year 2000 anymore.

Typing the name of the program you want is a 1970s thing.

Yes, it's often possible to get unsupported services working, but it's rarely simple and it's prone to breakage over time with changes to the system as well as to the service. I do not recommend it to anyone seeking a simple solution and I will not do it for someone I need to support.

I have not and do not recommend it. I simply responded to the claim that it doesn't work, because it does. OP has something else going on that's causing Google Drive problems.

I use both Dropbox and Mega and recommend either for someone seeking a simple cloud-sync solution.

No, the Google Drive implementation is just for cloud storage. It doesn't do offline file-sync. I'll update my earlier comment.

Google drive integrates simply into the file manager on Gnome for cloud storage. It doesn't do offline file-sync between devices, however.

The Microsoft and Apple products don't support Linux because... Microsoft and Apple.

I already said I didn't care.

It pretty much screams "Don't trust!"

Blocking access from everyone that wants to protect their privacy is not an acceptable policy.

I got the same popup. Blocks the article, no way to get past it to read it. And no, I don't read Hacker News nor did I follow a link from them. Fuck Asahi. They can pull their heads out of their asses and then maybe I'll regain some interest in their shit... but I doubt it. They've just demonstrated sheer technical incompetence as well as childish pettiness. Definitely not anyone worthy of being relied on.

Slashdot that's not all pre-selected botspam?